A note to myself to write some more on search engines. I've been having thoughts agin which basically revolve around the 3 or 4 ways people use search engines viz. - when they're looking for a specific something (say, a song lyric) which uses an inverted index, when they're researching a topic (such as "neuro linguistic programming") in which case ( Read more... )

Ages ago I wrote a web based calendar and it was good.

All this calendaring stuff has been about the aformentioned EventQueue and I finally got round to sitting down and banging out the framework for finally building it.

It's actually all come together really quickly and has shaken out a load of bugs and edgecases in Data::ICal::DateTime and, ( Read more... )

At someone else's behest at work I spent a couple of days writing something called Pel::Mel. Basically it acted as a bridge between Perl and MEL, the Maya Embedded Language. The advantages of this are huge - you get support for namespaces and CPAN within MEL and we can do a much better job centrally installing and versioning extensions. The way it ( Read more... )